Chapter 7

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Next Day at School

Riley is alone at her locker when she feels eyes on her so she turns and catches Lucas staring at her before he looks away trying not to get caught making them both blush.

"What's got  you so happy" Maya says as she approaches

"Nothing" Riley says hiding her face in her locker

"Oh really" she looks over across the hall and realizes what's going on

"so it has nothing to do with the fact that Friar is staring at you right now?" Maya teases

Riley turns again and Lucas again turns away

"I don't know what you are talking about" Riley asks innocently 

Maya rolls her eyes at her best friend as she opens her locker to get her books.

At that moment the girls other friend Farkle approaches them

"Ladies"

"Farkle" They say together

"What are we talking about?" he asks

"About..."  Maya starts

"Nothing, we were talking about  nothing" Riley interrupts Maya

"Ooookay"Farkle says deciding it was better not to know

At that moment Lucas comes up to the group

"Hey Farkle here are your chemistry notes thanks for letting me borrow them."

"No prob, Lucas  Riley and Maya, guys you know Lucas my science partner" Farkle introduces

"Yeah I met Riley the other day" he looks at the brunette "Hi, again"

"Hi" Riley says  with her goofy smiles and Lucas just  smiles at her then turns to the blonde

"Nice to meet you Maya" he smiles politely 

"You too" Maya nods.

Lucas turns back to stare at Riley

"Well I have to get going, bye" He smiles at Riley

"Bye" Riley says 

Lucas takes one last look at her and makes his way to his friends to walk to class

"Oh yeah you both have it bad" Maya teases

"Shut up" Riley blushes

"Girls are weird" Farkle mumbles as he walks away from the girls to his next class

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It was time for Mr. Matthews history class which the 3 friends had together along with Lucas. Once they entered the class Lucas and Riley eyes connect and they smile at each other, Maya simply rolls her eyes at them and goes to sit at her seat which happens to be in front of Lucas.

A few moments later Mr. Matthews enters the class and Maya eyes widen when she sees that he's not alone with him is non other than Josh who sees her sitting at the front of the class and smiles at her and Maya quickly looks down.

Maya can hear all the girls whispering about who "the cute hottie" was. Maya wanted to roll her eyes at the girls.

"Hello class I would like to introduce you to my younger brother Josh, he's a student at NYU and he has to do community service hours for one of his classes so for the next couple weeks he'll be here helping me out" Mr. Matthews explains

This couldn't be happening! Maya thought. Now she had to see him everyday here in class how was she going to get through that. 

Most  of the girls in class were excited to hear that he would be here. Maya tried to hide her annoyance at the thought of all the girls flirting with him while he was here. Maya tried to tell herself she didn't care. Why would she?

Josh goes to sit in the back but not before smiling over at Maya.

The rest of the class went by without any disturbances Maya avoided looking back to stare at Josh. Before they knew it the bell finally rang and the class began to exit. 

"So you excited?" Riley teases

"About?" Maya asks

"My uncle being here"

Maya shrugs "No big deal"

Riley rolls her eyes and gets up "See you at lunch" Riley leaves to her next class leaving Maya by herself.

She was finishing packing up her stuff when she feels someone approach her and  she hears that familiar voice.

"So looks like we'll be seeing more of each other" 

Maya looks up and sees Josh standing by her desk with smiling at the blonde

"Yeah looks like it" Maya says 

Maya looks over to see some of the girls huddled together staring at Josh and whispering

"Looks like you got some new fans" Maya mumbles

Josh looks over to where Maya was looking and sees the girls and then turns back to Maya

"Is someone jealous?" He smirks at the blonde

Maya scoffs "Of course not why would I be jealous"

Maya gets up and begins to head toward the door when Josh stops her 

"Don't worry, they're not my type" Josh says staring straight at her

Maya doesn't know how to respond so she just turns  and walks away and Josh just stares at her as she leaves.

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The rest of the day was fine and then lunch came and Maya and Riley were seated with Farkle at the cafeteria  when Josh approaches them.

"Hello Niece" He says to Riley

"Hey uncle Josh,  what are you doing here?" 

"Well I would rather not sit with Cory and a bunch of old guys in the teacher's lounge. Is it okay if I join you guys?" he says

"Of course"

Josh takes a seat which happens to be next to Maya. Maya tries to act as cool as she can especially when  their shoulders touch.

"Uncle Josh this is our friend Farkle" Riley introduces him and they shake hands

"So how was your first day?" Riley asks

"Pretty good, not much to do today so I just watched Cory teach" Josh shrugs

"Wel it's just the first day" Riley assures him

"Yeah that's true"

All of a sudden Cory approaches them

"Ah Josh I'm glad you are here , I finally found something for you" 

"Oh really what?" Josh asks

"Well Maya had a little trouble on the last test so I thought maybe you could tutor her"

Maya couldn't believe this was happening

"That sounds good, I'd be happy to help" Josh smiles at Maya

"What do you say Maya" Cory asks

"Uh, yeah I guess" Maya answers. What other choice did she have.

"Then it's settled, you two can set up a schedule that works good for both of you"  Cory leaves the 4 alone again.

"Could this day get any worse" Maya thought









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